Hardware Updates
AMD (formerly ATI) introduced their new line of video cards today. The HD 2900 looks interesting and its supposed to have very good video support but at the moment I’m leaning towards the NVidia 2600GTS for the media center machine. The AMD cards have even more disgusting huge power requirements than the top of the line NVidia cards and that doesn’t suggest a good chance of silent (no-fan) versions of the cards. Also none of the reviews had any data on media performance- apparently the drivers are crappy enough at the moment they couldn’t even get that stuff to work.
Its really sad that it still appears to be a race to the bottom for driver stability.
In other news, NewEgg now has the 1TB Hitachi drive. Of course they are charging $599 for it at the moment which is $200 over the recommended retail price, so its still in a holding pattern. Plus, the Seagate one sounds like it will be really nice too.
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